Example sentences of "[noun sg] was always [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teaching of religion was always a feature of the curriculum , and until 1988 was the one subject legally required . |
| 2 | The great problem of uniformitarianism was always the amount of time needed to explain what was known to have happened in the history of the earth ( including the evolution of all its species ) if one could only Postulate present processes . |
| 3 | In the years after the Great Interruption , Danton 's motto of De l'audace , toujours de l'audace was always the battle-cry of English county players like Harold Gimblett of Somerset , Roy Marshall of Hampshire and Dicky Dodds of Essex . |
| 4 | The music of Maritza 's entrance was always a gift to any singer , good or bad : the rising crescendo from the orchestra that tells the audience a star is about to come on stage . |
| 5 | The spectre of the great apostasy was always a threat to the more ideologically committed evangelicals but Terence O'Neill 's reforms , tepid and half-hearted as they were , raised the spectre to a power and status from which it threatened a far greater number of rural Presbyterians who saw the proposed changes as proof that Paisley had been right all along . |
| 6 | The Chinese state , it was argued , was a rehearsal for ‘ social fascism ’ and capitalist restoration was always a possibility without real reform . |
| 7 | Tax was always a concern with him . |
| 8 | His two unmarried sisters were in the same line of business in Winchester Street , but whilst their tiny shop was always an advertisement for cleanliness , his was quite the opposite . |
| 9 | They also loved their partner to take the initiative as they found it boring if sex was always a case of the man trying it on . |
| 10 | But for Jenks thought was always the precursor to action . |
| 11 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |
| 12 | Once we reached the far side of the bridge we went via a very old iron kissing gate into the field which early in summer was always a mass of buttercups . |
| 13 | His sense of humour was always a feature of the critics ' circuit ; I treasure a bulging mental file of his roguish observations on fellow critics and luminaries in the music trade . |
| 14 | And although his father said : ‘ lt was thet boy o' mine ! ’ , the bent drill-furrow was always a source of leg-pulling between the two friendly rivals : ‘ You 're not a ‘ going to tell me a tale like thet , Walter Cater . |
| 15 | His intelligent and uncompromising struggle was always an inspiration to them in theirs . |
| 16 | The context was always a plea for tolerance of something which he had been taught to regard as sinful . |
| 17 | Her voice was clear and light , its pitch was always a shock to him , when he heard her without seeing her . |